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How to Keep Well 



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Copyrighted 1909 by 

Dr. S. C. MATTHEWS 

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Published by 

The American Society for the Prevention of Disease 

500 Fifth Avenue 

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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Preventive Science 3 

II. Newly Discovered Facts and Principles with 

Eeference to the Nerves 9 

III. The New Method of Examination and Treat- 

ment 20 

IV. Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Con- 

ditions 35 

V. How to Increase or Decrease the Weight.... 47 

VI. The Prevention of Tumors and Operations . . . . 51 

VII. General Eules for the Prevention of Disease 56 

VIII. General Eemarks 73 

Addendum — The Diseases of Your Father and 

Mother Point to Your Weakest Part 76 



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Chapter I. 

Preventive Science. 

Facts have recently been discovered which 
throw a wonderful new light on the subject of 
INDIVIDUAL diseases — not only on the sub- 
ject of curing them, but upon the greater work of 
PREVENTING them. 

All diseases may be divided into two grand 
divisions, (i) Epidemic, (2) Individual. 

EPIDEMIC diseases are those which are con- 
tagious, such as 

Smallpox, Yellow Fever, 

Cholera, Diphtheria, etc. 

INDIVIDUAL diseases are those which are 

not contagious, such as, 

Nervousness, Pneumonia, 

Rheumatism, Goiter, 

Sick headache, Gall stones, 

Apoplexy, Sciatica, 

Paralysis, Bright's Disease, 

Heart Disease, Asthma, 

Indigestion, Catarrh, 

Constipation, Fits, 

Pain in back, Lumbago, 

Tonsilitis, Piles, 

Poor circulation, Typhoid fever, 

Neuralgia, Eyes, ears, joints, etc. 
Consumption, 



Preventive Science. 

Modern science has made wonderful progress 
in the work of dealing with epidemic diseases, 
especially in preventing them, and the great 
object now is to accomplish similar results in 
dealing with Individual diseases. 

In former times, smallpox, cholera, yellow 
fever, etc., were the terrors of civilization. 
These epidemics swept over the world every 
two or three years, slaying their victims by tens 
of thousands. The death rate often was so 
great and it worked so rapidly that the dead had 
to be buried in trenches as on great battle- 
fields. Cities were almost depopulated. All 
efforts of physicians to find a cure proved 
futile, and it seemed that the world would 
always be helpless against these attacks. This 
belief was especially strong in the minds of many 
who held to the superstition that these epidemics 
as well as all other diseases were sent by Provi- 
dence, and consequently all efforts of man to 
cure or prevent them would always be unavail- 
ing. 

Fortunately for humanity, however, there 
were some who did not share in this supersti- 
tious belief. There were some who believed that 
epidemics were not sent upon man by Provi- 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well 



dence, but were EFFECTS following specific 
CAUSES, and that if these causes could be 
found and prevented, the epidemics would not 
occur. 

Holding to this scientific view of the question, 
a few brave men studied, worked and experi- 
mented, and finally in one epidemic disease after 
another proved by demonstration that the cause- 
and-efifect theory of disease is correct. 

They demonstrated, for instance, that the 
cause of smallpox is a specific poison, and that 
prevention of the scattering of this poison pre- 
vented an epidemic of the disease. 

All epidemic diseases have been found to be 
caused by some form of poison, and the work 
of preventing these diseases requires only the 
prevention of the scattering of the poison which 
produces them. Hence the passage of laws for 
isolation, quarantine and other public sani- 
tary measures throughout the civilized world, 
their strict enforcement, and the almost com- 
plete prevention of all those epidemic diseases 
which in former times were the scourges of the 
world. 

PREVENTIVE SCIENCE therefore was 
originated when it was demonstrated once and 



Addendum. 



for all that disease is not sent by Providence, 
that it is not the result of fate or chance, but 
that it is a definite EFFECT following a definite 
CAUSE and that disease can be prevented. 

And yet while the work of prevention was 
shown to be possible, reduced to a science and 
practically applied in preventing epidemic dis- 
eases, the question of preventing that other 
great class of diseases known as INDIVID- 
UAL, not only remained unsolved, but little or 
no progress was made with it until recently. 
The reason for this is found in the fact that 
while both epidemic and individual diseases are 
EFFECTS following CAUSES, the causes in 
the two divisions are radically different. 

Epidemic diseases are caused by specific 
poisons and their prevention is the work of 
preventing the generation and scattering of 
the poisons which produce them. 

Individual diseases have recently been found 
to be caused by PRESSURE ON NERVES, 
and this discovery of their cause makes these 
diseases also preventable, and so broadens the 
principles of PREVENTIVE SCIENCE as to 
include within it all diseases, both epidemic and 
individual. 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



Scientists now see that disease is altogether 
unnatural — death from disease being as unnat- 
ural as death by drowning or accident. A child 
is born; a certain number of years brings it to 
maturity, and a certain number of years more 
brings it to the point we call death, which should 
come to all, as it now comes to the few — without 
a moment's sickness. 

We hear now and then of a man or a woman 
ninety or one hundred years of age, in the full 
possession of his or her faculties going to sleep 
in a chair and dying thus, without pain and 
without any kind of disease. This is the natural 
death. It is the kind of death to which all 
human beings are entitled. It simply means 
that the cycle of life is finished. 

While the work of preventing INDIVIDUAL 
diseases has only begun, on account of the fact 
that their causes were not heretofore known, 
wonderful progress already has been made along 
this line and an enumeration of the diseases which 
have been prevented and are now being prevented 
would practically include the whole list of INDI- 
VIDUAL diseases. 

Nervousness, rheumatism, apoplexy, heart 
disease, pneumonia, paralysis, diseases of the 



Preventive Science. 

stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, sexual organs, 
eyes, ears, throat, skin, circulation, etc., have 
all been prevented in (numerous cases, and the 
work is being extended to greater and greater 
numbers each day. 

How it can be told that this or that organ or 
part is about to be attacked by disease, and how 
the attack is prevented, is found in the study of 
those CAUSES which recently have been dis- 
covered, the principles of which are set forth in 
the following pages. 



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Chapter II. 

Newly Discovered Facts and Principles 
with Reference to the Nerves, 

Currents of electricity flow through your 
nerves. 

These currents are the life of your body and 
so long as they remain perfect you will live and 
remain well. When they become imperfect, 
however, your health will become impaired and 
when this imperfection reaches a certain degree 
you will die. 

Your nerves are like threads, strands or 
cords. They are composed of two parts, the 
outside or sheath — a tough, elastic substance — 
and the inside or axis-cylinder — a soft jelly-like 
substance. 

The brain generates the electricity which runs 
your body and it is conducted from the brain to 
the various organs, glands, muscles and parts 
by this jelly-like axis-cylinder on the inside of 
your nerves. 

Each nerve under normal conditions, whether 
it be a thread, strand, or cord, conducts and 
transmits one hundred units of electric power 
from the brain to the part to which the nerve 
goes. 

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Newly Discovered Facts and Principles with Reference 
to the Nerves. 



While the amount of electricity represented 
by a unit varies with the size of nerves, still each 
nerve, when in perfect condition, transmits one 
hundred units of power— that is, one hundred 
per cent, of power. All of anything is one per 
cent, of it. Therefore, all the electricity which 
any nerve can transmit, whether it be a nerve 
thread no larger than a hair, or a nerve cord 
as large as a lead pencil, is one hundred per cent. 

The one hundred units, or the one hundred per 
cent., simply means normal QUANTITY for 
any given nerve. 

In dealing with this new science there is one 
word of vast importance and that is the word 
QUANTITY. 

If the normal condition of the soft jelly-like 
substance on the inside of a nerve — the axis- 
cylinder — is disturbed, that nerve becomes at 
once unable to transmit its normal QUANTITY 
of electric power. 

For instance, if the nerves running from the 
brain to the heart be cut in two, the heart stops 
at once and death follows. But if these same 
nerves be grasped between the blades of a pair 
of steel pincers and SQUEEZED with sufficient 
tightness to disturb the condition of the axis- 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



cylinder, the heart begins to show signs of dis- 
tress, the pulse becomes weak, and in time, if 
the pincers be not removed, the heart stops and 
death follows just as if the nerves had been 
severed. 

SQUEEZING the axis-cylinder of a nerve 
obstructs or cuts off altogether the electric cur- 
rent flowing through it and weakness or death 
of the part to which that nerve goes follows. 

Cut the nerves running from the brain to the 
muscles of the leg and the leg becomes paralyzed. 
Squeeze these nerves as before described and 
paralysis also follows. 

Cut the nerves running from the brain to the 
kidneys and these organs at once cease to per- 
form their function. Squeezing the same nerves 
is followed by the same result. 

These and hundreds of similar experiments 
have been made on animals by means of vivisec- 
tion and they prove two of the most important 
facts that have been brought to light in modern 
times for the cure and prevention of disease. 

i. The electric power which runs the body is 
generated in the brain and flows out to all the 
various organs and parts through the axis- 
cylinder of nerves as stated. 

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Newly Discovered Facts and Principles with Reference 
to the Nerves. 



2. In order that any organ or part may 
receive its normal QUANTITY of electric 
power, the axis cylinder of the nerves connecting 
it with the brain must be free from PRESSURE. 

While severed nerves are extremely rare, 
occurring only in cases of severe injury, squeezed 
nerves are of the most common occurrence, caus- 
ing more sickness and death than all other phys- 
ical causes combined. 

The squeezing of the nerves which is of such 
common occurrence and followed by such dis- 
astrous consequences, is usually found at the 
joints of the spine. These joints, twenty-four in 
number, are SWITCHES through which the 
nerves pass from the brain to the heart and other 
vital organs and parts of the body. So long as 
these switches remain fully open the nerves pass 
through them unhampered. But any tightening, 
turning, closing, or other imperfection of a joint 
will result in catching the nerve where it passes 
between these bones, and squeezing it. The 
effect is just the same, owing to the hard sub- 
stance of bone, as if the nerves were squeezed 
by a pair of pincers. 

These joints of the spine are the most peculiar 
joints in all the world — peculiar because a thick, 

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PERFECT SPINAL JOINTS 

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IMPERFECT SPINAL JOINTS 

— the kind that goes with the stiffness of age, decreased height, 
squeezed nerves, imperfect circulation, weakness and general ill health. 

This drawing illustrates the condition spinal joints get into, where 
the spine receives no attention. There is a constant tendency of the 
tissues which bind the bones of the spine together to contract, thus 
pulling the bones closer together than they should be, or out of their 
true alignment. This compresses the cartilages, pinches the nerves and 
makes for disease. Each of the cushions must be kept normal in 
thickness, the spinal windows must be kept open, and the nerves free, 
or disease of some part must follow, depending upon the joints which 
become tight or imperfect. Your spine as well as your teeth must 
have attention from time to time if you would be healthy and live long. 

See to it that your spine does not become stiff. A stiff spine is 
the forerunner of disease. 



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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

spongy cushion enters into the construction of 
each of them. 

These cushions resemble spongy, porous rub- 
ber. They are normally about one-fourth of an 
inch thick and make up about one-twelfth of the 
height. If you are five feet six inches tall and 
in perfect condition, about five and one-half 
inches of your height is due to these twenty-four 
CUSHIONS placed between the bones of your 
spine. 

These cushions when in perfect condition per- 
form two important offices. 

i. They make possible the varied and complex 
motions of the spine. 

2. They prevent the nerves from being 
squeezed at the spinal joints, by holding the 
bones of the spine apart. 

It is to these cushions you owe your grace of 
body, your power to bend, to turn, and to twist 
your neck and back. Were it not for these 
cushions your spine would be stiff and practically 
immovable. 

Again, you owe not only your grace of motion, 
but also your health and even your life to these 
cushions. They stand at the gateways of life, so 

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Newly Discovered Facts and Principles with Reference 
to the Nerves. 



to speak, and determine by their CONDITION 
whether these gateways shall be open or closed. 
They determine by their CONDITION the set 
of the electric SWITCHES. They determine 
by their CONDITION whether these 
SWITCHES shall be open, allowing the electric 
current to flow freely through them, or whether 
they shall be partially or fully closed, OB- 
STRUCTING or cutting off entirely this cur- 
rent that is life. 

Each joint of the spine is a CUSHION-JOINT 
and a CUSHION-SWITCH combined, in which 
the perfect condition of both depends upon the 
perfection of the cushion. 

It has long been known to scientists that every- 
one is a little shorter at night (about one-eighth 
of an inch) than in the morning. It has also 
long been known to scientists that people, gener- 
ally speaking, are slightly shorter when they are 
sick than when they are well, and also that old 
people who are weak are often as much as one 
inch or even two inches shorter than when they 
were in perfect health in the prime of life. 

These facts have been matters of common 
knowledge for more than a century and yet no 
one until recently, ever saw in them anything of 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well, 

a practical nature. It is now found, however, 
that they have a most wonderful meaning, and 
point to the solution of the great problem of 
health as accurately as Franklin's experiment of 
one hundred years ago pointed to wireless teleg- 
raphy. 

This decrease in height during the day, during 
chronic illness and also among the old who are 
weak, is due entirely to the compression of the 
cushions of the spine. 

It should be noted that the change in height 
is always a decrease. The cushions of the spine 
never become THICKER than normal. It is 
their becoming THINNER than is normal, from 
compression, that causes the decrease in height. 
This it is, too, which partially or fully closes the 
switches of the spine, obstructing or blocking 
entirely the electric current flowing through 
them from the brain and causing weakness, sick- 
ness, or death. 

You will never be TALLER than normal. 
But you will be SHORTER than normal if you 
allow any of the cushions of the spinal joints to 
become compressed, and your health will become 
impaired, in the same proportion. 

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Newly Discovered Facts and Principles with Reference 
to the Nerves. 



Danger lies not so much in compressing all 
the twenty-four cushions slightly as in compress- 
ing one, two or three cushions greatly. 

The process of compression being gradual and 
generally not attended by pain, a person may 
have one or several of these cushions badly com- 
pressed even to the point of causing death, and 
know nothing about it. This explains why such 
a great number of men and women who are sup- 
posed to be in perfect health drop dead from 
heart disease, apoplexy, etc. 

Through a certain number of these cushion- 
switches of the spine nerves pass on their way 
from brain to heart. If one or more of 
these cushions becomes compressed the switch 
gradually closes, and gradually cuts off the elec- 
tric power flowing from the brain through the 
nerves to the heart. When ^ this "cut off" 
reaches a certain stage the heart stops and death 
follows, due entirely to the squeezing of one or 
more nerves between the bones of the spine as if 
it were done by a pair of pincers, as before 
described. 

The heart itself may be sound and able 
to do its work for thirty years longer. The 
brain may be sound and able to generate elec- 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

tricity to run the body for a like period of time, 
but a cushion which should be one-fourth of an 
inch thick becomes compressed to half that thick- 
ness and as a result of this a nerve is squeezed, 
the electric current flowing through it is 
obstructed and the heart stops when it fails to 
receive the minimum QUANTITY of electric 
power required to run it. 

Perhaps all the intimation the person ever had 
that his heart was not receiving its full QUAN- 
TITY of electric power was a little shortness of 
breath in climbing stairs or running for a car. 

The principles here described apply not only 
to the heart but to all the internal organs. 
Through other cushion-switches of the spine 
nerves pass on their way from the brain to the 
bronchial tubes and lungs. Pinching or squeez- 
ing any of these nerves means first, weak lungs, 
then diseased ones — the CONDITION which 
precedes and makes possible bronchitis, pneu- 
monia, consumption, etc. 

Through other of these cushion-switches 
nerves pass on their way from the brain to the 
stomach, liver, bowels, etc. Pinching or squeez- 
ing any of these nerves means first, indigestion, 
inactive liver, constipation, etc., and then ulcer a- 

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Nezvly Discovered Facts and Principles with Reference 
to the Nerves. 



tion of these organs, preparing the way for 
typhoid fever and many other fatal diseases to 
which the digestive organs are subject. 

Through other of these cushion-switches 
nerves pass on their way from the brain to the 
kidneys, bladder and sexual organs. Pinching or 
squeezing any of these nerves means first, weak 
kidneys, weak bladder, weak sexual organs, etc., 
preparing the way for the long list of diseases 
which attack these parts of the body. 

Through still other of these CUSHION- 
SWITCHES the nerves pass on their way from 
the brain to the eyes, the ears, the arms, legs, etc. 
Squeezing means weakness, then disease of these 
parts. So it is throughout the body. To prevent 
squeezing the nerves as they pass through the 
joints of the spine, these joints must be perfect. 
The cushions which hold the bones apart must 
be normal in thickness, and all the spinal bones 
themselves in their true position. In a word, the 
spine must be perfect. Moreover, all other parts 
of the body must be in their true position. Be- 
cause, while pressure on the nerves most gener- 
ally occurs in the spinal joints, it can and often 
does occur elsewhere along the course of the 
nerves. Rigid muscles or ligaments, ribs and 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

other bones drawn slightly out of perfect 
alignment, as well as an imperfect spinal joint, 
may obstruct the current flowing through a 
nerve. 

The great problem, therefore, of curing disease 
is a problem of tracing the nerves from whence 
they start in the brain to where they end in the 
various organs and parts of the body, and see- 
ing to it that they are free from pressure through- 
out their course — capable of transmitting their 
normal QUANTITY — their full one hundred 
units — of electric power. 

NOTE: It should be understood that the brain must 
generate all the electricity which the body uses. Artificial 
electricity, which is generated by machinery or in batteries 
and thrown on the body, cannot be used by it to any per- 
manent advantage. The body must make its own electricity, 
the same as it makes its own hair, its own nerves, etc. 



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Chapter III. 

The New Method of Examination and 
Treatment. 

The new theory given in the foregoing pages, 
viz., that the PRIMARY CAUSE of disease is 
PRESSURE on nerves, establishes an entirely 
new procedure in the cure and prevention of dis- 
ease, and makes necessary not only a new method 
of EXAMINATION, but also a new method of 
TREATMENT. 

The health problem is now seen to be not a 
problem of drugs but a problem of MINUTE 
MECHANICS. I say MINUTE mechanics be- 
cause, while the electric wiring of the body is dis- 
turbed in sickness and ill health, that which dis- 
turbs it is usually not merely a mechanical de- 
fect but a mechanical defect EXCEEDINGLY 
SLIGHT or MINUTE. So slight, so minute, 
in fact, are these mechanical defects, that they 
are generally unsuspected by the patient and can 
only be detected by scientific methods recently 
brought to light. 

We have seen that nerves are threads, strands, 
or cords and can transmit their full one hundred 
units of electric power from the brain to the part 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

to which they go only so long as they are free 
from PRESSURE throughout their entire 
course. We see, therefore, how very slight may 
be the defect in the position of a bone, or the 
tension of a muscle or ligament which would 
SQUEEZE one of these nerve threads, strands, 
or cords and obstruct the electric current flow- 
ing through it so that the part to which the 
nerve goes would receive ninety units, eighty, 
fifty, or at least a diminished number of units of 
power instead of its full one hundred. 

SLIGHTLY! MINUTE! As soon as one 
realizes the full meaning of these words as they 
apply to the electric wiring and mechanics of 
the body he begins to see a new philosophy as 
to the CAUSE and CURE of disease. 

Until the CAUSE of a diseased condition is 
known, any treatment given to cure it is the 
merest guess work. 

Lacking a knowledge of the CAUSES of dis- 
ease, the doctor of the ancients sought to cure 
by waving his wand over the sick, by charms, 
incantations, etc. And likewise, the modern 
doctor, lacking a knowledge of CAUSES, has 
had his patients swallow scores of drugs, most 
of them not only useless but positively injurious, 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



inflaming the delicate linings of the internal 
organs and retarding recovery instead of assist- 
ing it. 

But now that the primary CAUSE of disease 
has been found to be an obstruction of the elec- 
tric currents flowing through the nerves, the 
work of curing and preventing disease is being 
reduced to a science as exact as that of dealing 
with chemical or mechanical electricity. 

A dim or imperfect electric light means that 
a switch is partially closed, the wires are down, 
or some imperfection is obstructing the current 
so that electricity is not reaching the light bulbs 
in normal QUANTITY. To remedy this con- 
dition remove the obstruction. As soon as the 
imperfection of the wires is found and removed, 
the lights become normal. 

This illustration applies directly to disease. 
The body is made up of cells. Each cell may be 
compared to an electric light bulb. A diseased 
organ or part is a collection of bulbs (cells) 
where the light is not coming on perfectly. The 
remedy here, as in the preceding case, lies in find- 
ing and removing the obstruction to the electric 
current flowing through the nerves. When this 
current is made normal in QUANTITY — ioo 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



per cent. — it will cure the diseased organ just 
as the normal current remedies the defective 
light. 

Again, as the CAUSE of a defective electric 
light is, generally speaking, a MECHANICAL 
DISTURBANCE— often not in the light bulbs 
themselves where the EFFECT is observed, but 
away off at the switches, or on the wires at some 
far distant point — so it is with a diseased part in 
the body. 

To show that the CAUSE of disease is a 
minute disturbance in the mechanics of the body, 
that this cause, this mechanical disturbance, is 
very generally at a point distant from where its 
EFFECT is observed, and to give the reader a 
more definite idea of the new method of examina- 
tion and treatment, and also to show that it is 
the electric current flowing through the nerves 
which really heals, I will give a few cases by way 
of illustration. 

Sciatica. A woman suffered intensely from 
pain in the lower back part of the hip, run- 
ning down the back of the leg to the foot — the 
course of the sciatic nerve. Diagnosed by the 
customary, old-fashioned method, her trouble was 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



pronounced sciatica. Acids in the blood were 
declared to be the cause. Drugs were prescribed 
internally and liniments were diligently applied 
to the back of the leg where the pain was felt. 
No benefit followed. 

An examination by the new method of trac- 
ing out the nerves brought out the fact that the 
nerve fibres which enter into the formation of 
the sciatic nerve were being "SLIGHTLY 
PINCHED" between two of the lower vertebrae. 
These bones had been drawn closer together than 
normal (the cushion holding them apart being 
slightly compressed), as the result of a little 
over-straining of the ligaments which bound 
these bones together. Little by little, in accord- 
ance with the new method of treating such con- 
ditions, the vertebrae were separated and put into 
normal place, the compressed cushion was built 
up to its normal thickness, after which the pain 
entirely disappeared. 

Here the pain, THE EFFECT, was felt in the 
leg, but the CAUSE was not in the leg at all, 
nor in the blood, but in the BACK. The cause 
was a mechanical defect so slight it could not 
have been detected by any of the old methods of 
examination. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



This, too, is but a typical instance of the way 
in which CAUSE and EFFECT by the new 
method of examination are often found to be 
widely separated. Here is another case: 

Eyes. A woman had two pterygiums on each 
eye for eighteen months. They were treated with 
lotions dropped into the eye at bedtime each night. 
Still they continued to grow. Finally she was 
told that they must be removed with the knife. 
A minute tracing out of the nerve connections 
of the eye revealed a SLIGHT mechanical diffi- 
culty on a nerve of such proportions that the cur- 
rent from brain to eyeball was partly cut off. 
This defect was corrected. In a short time the 
pterygiums disappeared, the eye becoming per- 
fectly clear again. 

The CA USE of the morbid growths lay in the 
nerve, the EFFECT, however, was on the eye- 
ball. No lotions poured upon the surface of the 
eye could ever have had any power to help. That 
was merely a waste of effort, just as if one were 
to be always tinkering with the apparatus of a 
refractory door-bell when all the time the real 
trouble arises from a badly connected wire in the 
cellar. 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



To have cut away the growths would have 
been unavailing. The CAUSE of the disease 
would have been untouched. The pterygiums 
would promptly have reappeared, as serious as 
before, if not worse, and thus a second operation 
would have become necessary soon. 

Appendicitis. A man was suffering peri- 
odically from severe pain in the right part 
of the abdomen. It was diagnosed as appendicitis 
and an operation was advised for the removal of 
the appendix. Tracing out the nerves running 
from the brain to the appendix revealed a point 
of intense PRESSURE at a spot where the 
nerve made its egress from the spine. This 
abnormal condition was corrected by the new 
method of treatment, after which the pain ceased 
and all tenderness disappeared. 

Nervousness. A woman suffering all of 
the many annoying and depressing symptoms of 
nervousness, after taking medicine for years, 
found that her trouble was due to an imperfect 
condition of one of the joints in the neck. This 
abnormality was very slight, but like a small 
pebble in the shoe, it was sufficient to keep one 
of the nerves continually irritated. Defective 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



neck-joint was the CAUSE, general nervousness 
the EFFECT. 

Ovarian Trouble. A woman suffered great- 
ly from pain in the left ovary. The old 
method of surgical diagnosis maintained that 
the ovary was diseased and must be removed at 
once. The new method found the nerves which 
run to the left ovarian vein "PINCHED" in 
such a way that the vein was constricted and 
thus unable to carry the impure blood out of the 
ovary as it should. Freeing the nerves to 
this vein enabled it to regain its normal size 
and to drain the ovary properly. Then all ten- 
derness and pain promptly disappeared. 

The EFFECT was in the ovary, but no 
amount of treatment at that point would have 
set conditions right. The REAL CAUSE was 
far away, and of such a nature that it must 
necessarily have escaped detection by any of the 
old methods of examination. 

This case also illustrates the cause and cure of 
congestion generally, viz. : pressure on the 
nerves which ramify through the walls and con- 
strict the blood pipes which drain the part con- 
gested. 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



Poor Circulation. A woman suffered intense- 
ly with cold feet and limbs. Her medical 
doctor maintained that it was "poor cir- 
culation of the blood." Tracing out the nerves 
from the brain to the limbs, it was found that the 
nerves were "caught up" and "cramped" by a 
slight slipping of the bones of the pelvis. These 
bones were reset and the pelvis made true in 
every way. All pressure from the nerves was 
thus relieved and the annoying symptom of cold- 
ness in the feet and limbs entirely disappeared. 

People often speak of having cold hands or 
feet and attribute their condition to "poor circu- 
lation of the blood." The fact is it is the elec- 
tric current flowing through the nerves which 
makes the heat of the body. When these cur- 
rents are normal the heat is normal, when they 
are decreased to some part, as in the case given 
above, the heat of that part becomes less than 
normal. It all depends upon the currents flow- 
ing through the nerves, not upon the blood. 

The blood is only so much fluid nourishment 
when pure, or fluid waste when impure, as the 
case may be. It has no heat in itself except what 
is imparted to it by the electric currents of the 
nerves. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

Again, the pipes through which the blood flows 
are composed of circular muscular fibres 
supplied by minute nerve threads. Through 
these nerve threads currents of electricity flow 
which cause the circular muscular fibres to con- 
tract or relax, thus changing entirely the caliber 
of the blood vessels and greatly increasing or 
decreasing the quantity of blood in any given 
part. 

The nerve currents increase the amount of 
blood to a part when the part is in active use, by 
increasing the caliber of the blood vessels run- 
ning into it. When the part ceases to be used 
actively, the amount of blood is at once decreased 
by making the same blood vessels smaller in cali- 
ber. The blood vessels in your stomach walls, 
for instance, are about four times as large after 
dinner as they are before dinner. The blood ves- 
sels in your brain are about four times as large 
when you are awake and thinking as they are 
when you are asleep, etc. 

Circulation of the blood and heat of the 
body are entirely under the control of the electric 
current flowing through the nerves which supply 
the walls of the blood vessels. And here as else- 
where, as we have seen in the case just given of 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



cold feet, and in the case of the congested ovary, 
the REAL CAUSE is generally SLIGHT pres- 
sure on the nerve controlling the part affected, 
and also generally at a point distant from where 
the EFFECT is observed. 

Ulcerated Colon. A woman suffered from 
a badly ulcerated condition of the descend- 
ing colon as was evidenced by extreme tender- 
ness on the left side of the abdomen and the pas- 
sage of a large quantity of mucus, at stool 
Internal medication brought no relief. Tracing 
out the nerves from the brain to the part of the 
colon affected, revealed that three of the spinal 
joints in the lower part of the back were in such 
a condition as to SQUEEZE the nerves passing 
through them to the colon. 

These joints were made perfect and the pres- 
sure being thus removed from the nerves, the dis- 
charge of mucus began to be less and less and 
soon disappeared from the stools altogether. 
Here the EFFECT was an ulcerated colon, the 
CAUSE, pressure on the controlling nerves at 
a distant point from where the effect was 
observed. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or yon cannot remain well. 



This case illustrates the power of the current 
which flows through the nerves to build up dis- 
eased parts. 

If, for instance, one sustains an injury so that 
a portion of the skin and flesh is torn away, the 
electric current running through the nerves to 
that part, if the current be normal in QUAN- 
TITY, will replace the tissue cell by cell and in 
time the part torn away will be entirely restored. 
If, however, you tear the flesh off a certain part 
and then cut the nerves running to that part, it 
will never heal, and gangrene will set in. This 
as well as all the foregoing cases show that it 
is the electric current which flows through the 
nerves that really heals any weak or diseased 
part. 

A part becomes weak or diseased because 
pressure on the nerves connecting it with the 
brain reduces the QUANTITY of electric 
power going to it below the normal. That 
same part becomes strong and healthy when the 
pressure is removed and the electric power 
flowing to it becomes fully normal in QUAN- 
TITY — i. e., ioo per cent. 

An old ulcer on the outside of the body heals 
very quickly when pressure is removed from all 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



nerves running to it. The same is true of ulcers 
on the inside of the body — in the stomach, 
bowels, or any other part. 

Make the QUANTITY of the electric current 
going to any weakened or diseased part normal 
and that current will do all the rest. It will 
build up ulcerated or broken-down tissue, make 
the weak part strong, the diseased part healthy. 

These random cases, as I have said, are given 
only by way of illustration out of hundreds or 
thousands that might be given covering the vari- 
ous forms of disease. But if the newly discov- 
ered facts as to what the REAL CAUSE of 
disease is — how it is found and how it is re- 
moved — be understood by the reader it is suffi- 
cient. 

From these examples it will be seen that two 
new truths have been brought to light in the 
treatment of disease. These two truths, while 
they prove the fallacy of the old method of put- 
ting drugs into the stomach, are carrying the 
blessings of health to thousands. 

A little reflection on the cases given will show : 

i. That the CAUSE in each case was 

PRESSURE on nerves resulting from slightly 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



displaced or slightly imperfect structures — a 
spinal cushion slightly compressed, a bone 
slightly slipped, or slightly drawn from its exact, 
its proper position, a muscle slightly rigid, a 
ligament slightly twisted, etc. 

2. That the power which cures is not chemicals, 
drugs, nor foreign substances taken into the 
stomach, but that power which removes the ob- 
struction to the current which flows through the 
nerves from the brain and enables it to reach the 
weakened or diseased part in normal QUAN- 
TITY. 

People take drugs for liver complaint, or kid- 
ney trouble, or stomach disorder, when nine 
times out of ten the REAL CAUSE of the dis- 
turbance is not in the liver or kidney or stomach 
at all, but away off at a distant point on some of 
the wires (nerves) which supply these organs 
with electric power. And not only this, but the 
defect being of a mechanical nature, drugs are 
as powerless to correct it as they would be to 
correct a mechanical defect in an automobile. 
Drugs cannot reset ribs, vertebrae or other 
bones, muscles, or ligaments that are slightly 
out of their proper position, and yet for the most 

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The New Method of Examination and Treatment. 



part, work of this kind is what is required to 
put the defective electric wiring of the body in 
perfect order. 

You cannot cure a disease unless you remove 
its CAUSE. This is what MANIPULATIVE 
SURGERY does and it is this which accounts for 
its remarkable results. 



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Chapter IV. 

Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily 
Conditions. 

From the illustrations given in the foregoing 
chapter, it will be seen that pain is not only an 
imperfect indicator of bodily conditions so far 
as locating causes is concerned — the cause often 
being at a point distant from where the pain is 
felt — but it is also an imperfect indicator of 
bodily conditions in another and vastly more 
important sense. 

From time immemorial, man has trusted his 
FEELINGS to tell him of his physical condition 
— concluding always that his health was normal 
if he felt no distress and suffered no pain. 

This theory in the light of the new discoveries 
of PREVENTIVE SCIENCE is now found to 
be wholly erroneous for two reasons. First, 
because your nerves are divided into two halves, 
and only one of the halves is sensor, i. e. } has the 
power to feel ; and second, because while diseases 
originate in the nerves as we have seen, they 
originate most generally in the half of your 
nerves which does not feel. 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions, 



To further illustrate these facts: The brain 
is the center of the physical being as we have 
seen. During life it is continually receiving IM- 
PRESSIONS and continually sending out 
ELECTRIC POWER. Now, it receives impres- 
sions from the body and outside world through 
the sensor nerves — the half that feels, and it 
sends out electric power through the motor 
nerves — the half that does not feel. But we 
have seen in the preceding pages that disease is 
caused by an obstruction to the electric current 
flowing through the nerves FROM the brain, 
i. e. y the motor nerves. 

We may sever all the sensor nerves in the 
body — those running into the brain — without 
impairing the processes of life, but as we have 
seen, we cannot sever even one motor nerve run- 
ning FROM the brain to a vital organ or part 
without causing instant death. That is to say, a 
person might be blind, deaf, and unable to smell, 
taste or feel as the result of all of the sen- 
sor nerves being severed, and still live; but the 
severing of even one motor nerve running FROM 
the brain to the heart, lungs or kidneys would 
result in death. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot rcmxxin well. 



The sensor nerves are essential to well being, 
but not to life. Their work is to gather impres- 
sions and send them into the brain. The motor 
nerves on the other hand, are essential to life. 
Their work is to transmit from the brain to every 
part that normal amount of electric power which 
every part must have in order to perform its 
functions and keep in repair. 

While there is a connection between these two 
halves of the nervous system, this connection is 
of such a nature that one may become disturbed 
without disturbing the other. In other words, 
one or more of your sensor nerves may become 
irritated and you may suffer intense pain without 
it disturbing your motor nerves or your health. 
On the other hand, one or more of your motor 
nerve-fibres may become pinched and your health 
thereby impaired even to the point of causing 
your death, without it disturbing your sensor 
nerves in any way, or causing you the slightest 
pain or distress. 

As an illustration of these points, neuralgia 
of the teeth, face, ears, arms, limbs, etc., 
while often intensely painful, is powerless 
to disturb the health so long as the motor nerves 
remain undisturbed. Hence, it is not at all 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions. 



uncommon to meet people who have suffered pain 
in some part more or less constantly for ten, 
twenty, thirty or even forty years, although the 
health aside from the pain throughout the years 
has been excellent. In these cases, the defect 
being in the sensor nerves and not extending to 
the motor nerves, the health remains unimpaired. 

On the other hand, a person drops dead from 
heart disease, or becomes unconscious and dies 
from a stroke of apoplexy without ever having 
had the slightest pain or distress. Here, the 
defect being on the motor nerves and not extend- 
ing to the sensor nerves, death was the first 
warning that the health was in any way 
impaired. 

These cases show that if you have pain there 
is something wrong, but they also show that 
something may be wrong, and very radically 
wrong, without the slightest pain or ill feeling 
to warn you of your true condition. 

Again, there is what may be termed a PRE- 
PARATORY STAGE, which precedes all dis- 
eases, without which no disease is possible and 
this is always painless, as it takes place in the 
motor nerves. In order to understand this more 
fully, let us take a man in perfect physical con- 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



dition, and see how the theory can be demon- 
strated. 

If the subject is in perfect condition, a full, 
steady current of electricity is flowing FROM 
the brain through the nerves, and in such volume 
as to give to every organ, gland and part, one 
hundred units of electric power. So long 
as he remains in this condition he is proof 
against all diseases not caused by specific poisons. 
He may drink water containing typhoid germs or 
breathe the germs of pneumonia or consumption 
into his lungs without receiving the slightest 
harm. He is germ proof. 

Now, from a fall, a lift, an awkward position 
in sitting or standing, from a slight jerk in a car 
or carriage, or any of a great number of other 
causes, let us suppose that the muscles at the 
spinal joint through which the nerves pass from 
the brain to the intestines become irritated and 
contract. What would be the result? We have 
seen that there is a thick cushion, resembling 
soft, porous rubber, placed between each two 
bones of the spine to hold them apart. We have 
also seen that the contraction of the muscles 
which run from one of these bones to the other, 
results in pulling the bones closer together than 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions. 



is normal, and squeezing or pinching the nerve 
which passes between the bones of that joint. 

The nerve being squeezed where it passes 
between these two bones of the spine, the electric 
current flowing from the brain through it is 
obstructed at that point, so that the intestines 
instead of receiving their full ioo units of elec- 
tric power, now receive only 90, 80, 70, or 60 
units. The circulation of the blood through 
them becomes disturbed. The tearing down and 
building up process is rendered imperfect and 
they become generally weakened. 

Our subject is now in the PREPARATORY 
STAGE for any or all diseases which attack the 
intestines. If he drinks water now containing 
the germs of typhoid, these germs find the 
defenses of the intestines down, and the intestinal 
tissue weakened. The germs take possession, and 
the man comes down with typhoid fever. 

If instead of the one described, the joint 
affected was the one through which the nerve 
passed FROM the brain to the lungs, the result 
would have been a PREPARATORY STAGE 
for diseases which attack the lungs. To take the 
germs of pneumonia or consumption into the 
lungs then would set up the disease, etc. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



The PREPARATORY STAGE of disease 
therefore is a stage of weakness — a stage where, 
owing to an obstruction on the nerve connecting 
a certain part with the brain, that part receives 
90, 80, 70, or 50 units of electric power instead 
of its full 100 units, and thereby becomes weak- 
ened and liable to diseases to which it is not 
subject so long as it receives its normal quantity 
of power. 

Now the point to remember in this connection 
is, that the nerves which run from the brain to a 
part are motor nerves — the kind that do not feel 
— and this process of squeezing them and reduc- 
ing the electric power of a part is, therefore, as 
I mentioned, painless. While sensor nerves 
may be involved, the condition of reducing the 
power of a part must take place in the currents 
OUTGOING from the brain, and OUTGOING 
currents flow through that half of the nerves 
which does not feel. Hence it is, that you may be 
in the PREPARATORY STAGE of disease, and 
this stage may advance through months and even 
years and finally result in instant death without 
you ever having had the slightest pain. Sudden 
death from heart disease or apoplexy is now 
found to be only the climax of the PREPARA- 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions. 



TORY STAGE, which in most cases has been 
gradually coming on in the motor nerves for 
years. Death in these cases is sudden, but the 
condition which results in death is not sudden. 
It is the culmination of slow development. 

Not only in heart disease and apoplexy, but in 
many diseases, the first stage is painless. Paraly- 
sis is rarely attended by pain. The first stages 
of nearly all diseases of the kidneys are painless. 
The first stages of consumption are painless. 
The beginning of tumors and growths of all 
kinds is painless. Tumors and growths are gen- 
erally of some size before they are noticed, and 
when they are noticed, nine times out of 
ten it is the result of accident. The reason of 
this is that they begin in the motor nerves. 

Hence, it is seen that pain is indeed an im- 
perfect indicator of bodily conditions. Pre- 
ventive Science does not trust to it. It 
has developed a method of examination and 
treatment which goes beyond the pain signal. 
Where pain exists, it does not allow itself to be 
misled as to its true cause, since we often find 
this cause at a distant point from where the pain 
is felt, as we have seen. And, what is of 
greatest importance is that the new method 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



of examination and treatment extends to the 
motor nerves — to those nerves which do not feel 
— detecting and correcting those slight imper- 
fections in them, which are the cause of that 
FIRST STAGE of weakness without which no 
disease is possible. 

These new discoveries of PREVENTIVE 
SCIENCE will soon change our habits and 
methods of life, and also the work of the physi- 
cian. Instead of giving our body no attention 
until we suffer pain and are taken down with 
disease, and then sending for a doctor to cure 
us, every one will undergo a careful physical ex- 
amination frequently, from the standpoint of 
these new discoveries. Every physician must 
master the new method of examination and 
treatment, and it will become his work to keep 
his patients well. 

Skilled mechanics are employed to keep 
the engines which draw the Twentieth Century 
Limited — the fastest train in the world — in per- 
fect order. The speed of this train is so great, and 
the time of the men who use it, so valuable, that 
every precaution is taken to prevent an accident 
or a breakdown. The engines are gone over after 
every run and put in order to the minutest detail. 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions. 



Nothing is left to chance. Now, every man, 
woman and child is, so to speak, an engine draw- 
ing a Twentieth Century Limited express. Life 
is too short and time too valuable for this fast 
train of life to have to stop and undergo repairs 
for weeks, months or years in sickness, when 
this can be prevented. The physician simply 
must keep these living engines in order. In the 
future the physician who allows those under his 
care to get sick will be called upon to explain 
just as the master mechanics are called upon to- 
day to explain if their engines are not in order. 

This is an entirely new way of looking at the 
work of a physician, but the new facts of PRE- 
VENTIVE SCIENCE make it possible for him 
to do this work, and he must do it. We already 
have this practice in dealing with PUBLIC 
HEALTH officials and epidemic diseases. If 
an epidemic of smallpox is threatened, the 
Mayor, the Press and the Public demand an 
explanation immediately. We know that these 
diseases can be prevented, and if they are not 
prevented we must know who is at fault. 

The individual in the future will assume this 
same attitude toward the physician in whose 
hands he has placed the keeping of his health and 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remttin well. 



the health of his wife and children. The individ- 
ual will know that disease can be prevented, and 
if it is not prevented he will demand an explana- 
tion of the physician in charge. 

In this new field, the physician will not be able 
to look after as many families as he does to-day, 
but he will do vastly more for those he does take 
charge of. He will study the breathing, the diet, 
the exercise, etc., of each individual under his 
care, examine each one frequently, tracing out 
all the nerves, both motor and sensor, and by so 
doing he will prevent that FIRST WEAKNESS 
of the heart, lungs, bowels, kidneys, etc., which is 
the first step toward disease — a weakness which 
so many have without knowing it. 

The physician will do all this work, and with- 
out any reference to the question of pain. For, 
as pain in a tooth comes frequently only after 
much damage is done, and the tooth is greatly 
decayed, so pain in the body, especially in a vital 
organ, is often the signal of a disease far 
advanced. 

PREVENTIVE SCIENCE now goes beyond 
the sensation of pain, and not only prevents it, 
but prevents the disasters which would follow it, 
as well as those other and greater disasters which 

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Pain an Imperfect Indicator of Bodily Conditions. 



develop without warning in the half of your 
nerves which does not feel — the half which has 
no pain. 



4 6 



Chapter V. 

How to Increase or Decrease Your Weight 

It is of vast importance in preventing disease 
to see that the weight does not deviate too far 
from normal. Life insurance statistics show 
that those who deviate more than twenty-five 
pounds either way from normal have a higher 
death rate than those within the normal. They 
are dangerous risks because their condition is 
abnormal. 

It has now been found that both underweight 
and overweight are not only abnormal conditions 
but both are a form of disease due to an imper- 
fection in the nerves controlling assimilation. 
When these nerves are put in perfect order the 
disease is removed, the assimilation becomes 
normal and with normal assimilation there is a 
loss of weight in those unduly heavy and a gain- 
ing of weight in those unduly light. 

These facts have been demonstrated in a vast 
number of cases. Both men and women have 
had their weight increased or decreased some- 
times as much as forty or fifty pounds by this 
new science of correcting the nerves controlling 
assimilation. The results are remarkable — the 

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How to Increase or Decrease Your Weight. 



What You Ought to Weigh according to Your 
Age and Height. 



AGES 


15-24 


25-29 


30-34 


35-39 


40-44 


45-49 


50-54 


55-60 


Ft. 
5 


In. 



120 


125 


128 


131 


133 


134 


134 


134 




1 


122 


126 


129 


131 


134 


136 


136 


136 




2 


124 


128 


131 


133 


136 


138 


138 


138 




3 
4 
5 
6 


127 


131 


134 


136 


139 


141 


141 


141 


131 


135 


138 


140 


143 


144 


145 


145 
149 


134 


138 


141 


143 


146 


147 


149 


138 


142 


145 


147 


150 


151 


153 


153 




7 


142 


147 


150 


152 


155 


156 


158 


158 




8 
9 


146 


151 


154 


157 


160 


161 


163 


163 


150 


155 


159 


162 


165 


166 


167 


168 




10 


154 


159 


164 


167 


170 


171 


172 


173 


6 


11 




159 


164 


169 


173 


175 


177 


177 


178 


165 


170 


175 


179 


180 


183 


182 


183 




1 


170 


177 


181 


185 


186 


189 


188 


189 




2 


176 


184 


188 


192 


194 


196 


194 


194 




3 


181 


190 


195 


200 


203 


204 


201 


198 



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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



general appearance being wonderfully changed, 
and what is of more importance, the general 
health greatly improved. They were taken out 
of the DANGER CLASS— out of the PRE- 
PARATORY STAGE of disease. 

You should see to it that your weight is within 
the twenty-five pound limit of the normal, as 
indicated by the table given herewith. To be 
otherwise is to be in a condition to invite disease 
rather than prevent it. 

It should also be stated that all drugs adver- 
tised to reduce the weight should be avoided as 
injurious to health and dangerous to life. Drugs 
cannot put a machine in order that is out of 
order. They cannot remove pressure from 
nerves that are being squeezed. And yet work 
of this kind must be done in order to remove the 
cause of these abnormal conditions. Drugs 
reduce the weight in these cases by depressing 
and paralyzing the nerves controlling digestion. 
They do not remove the cause of the condition 
and when their effect is fully removed from the 
system the weight soon increases to what it was 
before, unless the drugs have partially paralyzed 
the nerves of assimilation which is a condition 
infinitely worse than excessive weight. 

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How to Increase or Decrease Your Weight. 



Preventive Science does this work naturally 
without drugs or any artificial means, by putting 
the nerves of assimilation in perfect order, and 
when this is done — when the nerve currents are 
made normal — the weight becomes normal and 
remains so. 

Abnormal weight results in weakness the 
same as any other abnormal condition results in 
weakness. It is the PREPARATORY STAGE 
of heart disease, apoplexy, etc., in those unduly 
heavy— the PREPARATORY STAGE of pneu- 
monia, consumption, etc., in those unduly light. 
To prevent these diseases you must prevent all 
the conditions which make them possible and 
abnormal weight is one of them. 

See to it that you are normal in weight as well 
as normal in every other way. 



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Chapter VI. 

The Prevention of Tumors and 
Operations. 

We have seen that the electric current flowing 
from the brain through the soft, jelly-like, axis- 
cylinder of a nerve to a part not only gives that 
part power to perform its work, but tears it 
down and builds it up cell by cell and keeps it 
continually renewed. The essential to a part 
being kept in perfect condition is that this 
electric current must reach it in normal QUAN- 
TITY. 

When this electric current flowing through a 
nerve is obstructed or disturbed by pressure, the 
result does not always manifest itself in the same 
way by any means. In fact, the great variety of 
ways in which an obstructed current does mani- 
fest itself gives rise to all the different forms of 
disease and is one of the most remarkable phe- 
nomena in the world. 

Sometimes the result of an obstructed current 
is a slight weakness of a part or organ to which 
the nerve goes. Sometimes it is numbness, or 
perhaps partial or complete paralysis of the part. 
Sometimes it results in the tissue of the part 

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The Prevention of Tumors and Operations. 



breaking down and wasting away as in ulcers — 
ulcers of the stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, 
etc. And sometimes it results in abnormal 
growths, tumors, etc. 

I gave an account in a previous chapter of 
growths appearing on the eyeball ; of their treat- 
ment by the old method of dropping fluid drugs 
on the eyeball; of the proposal to remove them 
by the knife, and finally by the new method of 
examination of finding a defect on certain 
nerves at a distant point from the eye ; of correct- 
ing this defect and the disappearance of the 
growths, the eye becoming in every way normal. 

This case, while it illustrates the new method 
of treating the eye, also illustrates how this new 
discovery — that life is maintained by an electric 
current flowing through the nerves — brings into 
view, as if by a great search light, that which 
heretofore has been obscured in utter darkness, 
i. e. 3 the CAUSE, CURE, and PREVENTION 
of abnormal growths. 

A tumor is an abnormal building of tissue. 
It is often far advanced before its presence is 
realized as it originates in the motor nerves. 
And while many different kinds of tumors and 
growths are described in books dealing with this 

5 2 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

subject, these differences are but the different 
manifestations of the same cause, viz.: an ob- 
structed electric current. 

An obstructed, imperfect nerve current under 
certain conditions builds abnormal tissue which 
we call a growth or tumor. Remove the obstruc- 
tion, make the imperfect current perfect and 
that PERFECT CURRENT will tear down cell 
by cell all the unnatural tissue, remove it, make 
the part perfect, and keep it so. These facts 
have been demonstrated not only with small 
growths on the eye, in the neck and breast, but 
also with growths of enormous size in the 
abdomen. 

It must not be supposed that this method of 
removing tumors and growths is miraculous. It 
is not. The normal current is continually tear- 
ing down imperfect tissue and continually replac- 
ing it, so that it is now estimated that the entire 
body is torn down and rebuilt, not every seven 
years as was formerly supposed, but at least 
every two years. Under certain conditions when 
the current becomes abnormal it builds abnormal 
tissue, and to tear this down and remove it is 
but the legitimate normal work of the normal 
current. 

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The Prevention of Tumors and Operations. 



AGAIN. — It is important to note that the 
defect on the nerve which caused the abnormal 
growth on the eye was at a DISTANT POINT 
from where the growth appeared, and this is now 
found to be the case in practically all growths. 

In view of these new facts we see why it is 
that so many operations prove futile — why so 
many who are operated upon are told in a short 
time that another operation is necessary, and 
this process repeated until five or six operations 
have been performed. 

The facts are a growth, like any diseased part, 
is always an EFFECT, and its CAUSE, as men- 
tioned, is often at a distant point from where 
the growth appears. To cut out the growth 
therefore and leave the CAUSE undisturbed, is 
to have the growth reappear calling for another 
operation. 

To cut out part of the body is not only a very 
unnatural process, but it is a great shock to the 
nervous system and invariably results sooner or 
later in weakness. 

To make normal the electric current flowing 
through the nerves to a part, is to remove all 
abnormal growths in a natural way — to keep it 
normal is to prevent them. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



These facts are now being demonstrated, and 
the time is not distant when the indiscriminate 
operations of to-day will be looked upon with a 
greater degree of amazement than that with 
which we now view the practice of bleeding and 
blood-letting which prevailed one hundred years 
ago. 



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Chapter VII. 

General Rules for the Prevention of 
Disease. 

The prevention of disease is a distinct triumph 
of science over superstition. So long as men 
believed that epidemics of smallpox, etc., were 
sent by Providence, it was, of course, considered 
useless to attempt to prevent them. It was only 
after one or two men, differing in their beliefs 
from all the rest of the world, after scientific 
research, discovered the CAUSE of these dis- 
eases and proved by actual demonstration that 
they could be prevented by preventing these 
causes, that people generally began to relinquish 
their superstitious beliefs that these scourges 
were sent by Providence. 

While all men now recognize the fact that 
epidemic diseases are the EFFECTS of certain 
CAUSES and can be and are prevented, there 
still remains in the minds of most people, even 
to-day, a notion with reference to INDIVID- 
UAL diseases, which if not the same is closely 
akin to that which was held by people in the 
past with reference to epidemic diseases. Per- 
haps it is not so much a belief to-day that these 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



INDIVIDUAL diseases are sent by Providence 
as it is the acceptance of a sort of fatalism. If one 
has an attack of smallpox now, he feels that this 
is something which could have been prevented 
and should have been, but if he has pneumonia, 
typhoid fever, defective kidneys, a diseased liver, 
rheumatism, or any other INDIVIDUAL dis- 
ease, he looks upon this as the result of fate, or 
chance — as something, which if not sent by 
Providence, is the result of "ill luck" or "mis- 
fortune/' etc. 

This is altogether natural. It is natural for 
man to attribute effects, the causes of which he 
does not understand, to chance, fate or Provi- 
dence. And, as the cause of INDIVIDUAL dis- 
eases has only recently been discovered, it is but 
natural that his reasoning with reference to 
these diseases should be illogical. But now, 
however, that the cause of these diseases has been 
brought to light {PRESSURE ON NERVES), 
he will soon reason as logically with reference 
to these as he now reasons with reference to epi- 
demic diseases. He will soon dismiss his idea 
that rheumatism, etc., are the result of "fate" 
or "chance," just as people in the past dismissed 
their belief that epidemics were sent by Provi- 

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dence. He will see that there is no mystery con- 
nected with any disease, but that each and every 
one of them is the EFFECT of a definite 
CAUSE, and that each and every one of them 
is preventable. 

Just as the work of preventing epidemic dis- 
eases is the work of preventing the generating 
and scattering of the various forms of conta- 
gious poisons which produce them, so the pre- 
vention of INDIVIDUAL diseases is a work of 
preventing the various forms of PRESSURE 
ON NERVES which produce them. 



The most important lesson for the individual 
to learn in this new work is that PREVENTION 
means PREVENTION. It means to get ahead 
of the disease, to forestall it, to ward it off, to 
make the conditions of the body such that dis- 
ease can get no hold — that it is impossible. In 
order to do this, the great custom of doctoring 
which now prevails must be altogether changed 
as we have elsewhere explained. You cannot, by 
the new custom, wait until you are suffering, 
until you are confined to your bed and then 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

send for the doctor. This is the old method 
of cure. The new method of prevention means 
that you must see your doctor from time to 
time while you are well, and he must keep you 
in such a condition that you will not be sub- 
ject to any form of pain or any kind of disease. 
This can be done, but it must be done while you 
are well. It is not prevention, if you wait until 
you are attacked by pain or sickness and then 
seek a cure. 

And again, you cannot trust to your 
feelings in this matter because only half of 
your nerves feel, and all fatal diseases, as we 
have seen, begin in that half of your nerves 
which does not feel. Also the PREPARA- 
TORY STAGE OF DISEASE takes place in 
the motor nerves and is painless. No, you can- 
not trust this work to your feelings. You must 
avail yourself of the new science of tracing out, 
examining and treating the nerves, which 
science goes far beyond the sensation of pain. 
And you must do this while you are well, just 
as a city or state does the work of preventing a 
smallpox epidemic when there is no indication of 
the disease. 

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General Rules for the Prevention of Disease. 



PREVENTIVE SCIENCE says, "Commence 
the new treatment for prevention at once. Do 
not put it off. Commence it at once and keep it 
up." But you say is not this idea of doctoring 
when one is well, and keeping it up going to be 
an exceedingly expensive programme for the 
average person to carry out? The answer is 
"No, it is not — not in the slightest." In fact, 
instead of it costing more than cure, it will cost 
infinitely less. Reckoned from the basis of a 
general average (this being the only correct way 
of considering it), it will be found that the pres- 
ent method of cure is perhaps one hundred or 
one thousand times more expensive than the new 
method of prevention will be. 

The expense of calling upon your physician now 
and then in order that he may keep you in per- 
fect condition will be slight. So slight, in fact, as 
to be within the reach of every one. It is not an 
expense that will be felt even by the poorest. To 
run on, however, without any attention until a 
disease has developed before you realize it, in the 
half of your nerves which does not feel, then to 
get down sick, to give up business, to become a 
sort of half invalid or die while you should be 
in your prime — these are the things that cost, 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

that are expensive — so terribly expensive, in fact, 
that no one however rich can afford them. 

Although it costs the city something to employ 
public health officers constantly and do the work 
necessary to prevent epidemics, this cost is noth- 
ing when compared with the cost in money and 
life of an epidemic such as prevailed in former 
times. 

No, the cost of the new work of prevention 
will be indeed slight compared with the cost of 
the old work of cure. But in order to prevent 
disease you must commence this new work in 
time — while you are well. Keep your nerves 
always in perfect order — always in perfect tune, 
so the electric currents flowing through them 
shall be always normal and you will finish your 
full cycle of life and finish it without pain, sick- 
ness or invalidism. 

The body being an electrical mechanism, and 
the electric currents which run and control it 
being transmitted from the brain to all parts by 
the nerves, it follows that a perfect condition of 
the nerves is a matter of primary importance. 
And still in the great work of preventing disease 
and keeping well, there are, of course, other 
things which must be considered. A few gen- 

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eral rules covering the main essentials for this 
new work may be given as follows : 



I. Keep All of Your Nerves Free from Pressure. 

In order to do this, there must be no rigidity of 
muscles, no imperfection in the frame work or 
other parts of the body. The cushions of your 
spine must be kept fully up to their normal thick- 
ness, the whole spine limber and supple with per- 
fect motion at every joint. The spine should be 
kept as free and limber in age as it is in youth. 
Stiffness generally comes on unawares, because 
the conditions which produce it take place in 
the nerves which do not feel. Stiffness of the 
spine means compressed cushions, squeezed 
nerves, obstructed currents, weakness, disease. 
Keep the electric wiring of your body in perfect 
order. 



II. Learn How to Breathe. About one-fifth of 
all deaths are caused by lung diseases — consump- 
tion, etc. From extended tests it has been esti- 
mated that more than half of the people do not 

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STRONG LUNGS 

— the kind that goes with perfect full breathing and perfect nerve 
currents, the kind that are immune to consumption and all other lung 
diseases. 




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God created the lungs and placed them in the human body for the 
purpose of purifying the blood. They are composed of about seven 
hundred millions of air cells, and it requires the combined action of all 
of these to purify the blood perfectly. The blood, laden with impurities, 
pours into these purifying reservoirs, a dark, muddy blue in color, but 
it leaves them, in health, a bright red. If only a part of the lung- cells 
is used the blood will be imperfectly purified and the unused cells will 
become weak, falling an easy prey to the many diseases which attack 



WEAK LUNGS 

— the kind that goes with imperfect, shallow breathing and obstructed 
nerve currents, the kind that falls an easy prey to consumption and 
all other lung diseases. 




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the lungs, and which, in the average, carries off one out of every live 
human beings. The nerves controlling the lungs being free, our lung 
cells will be exactly what we make them. Practice deep, full breath- 
ing. It becomes a habit in a short time. 

Drug blood-purifiers are wholly erroneous. 

Great progress is now being made in the work of preventing con- 
sumption. Intelligent people are seeing to it that the nerves running 
from their brain to their lungs are free from pressure and that their 
lungs are receiving their full 100 units of electric power. They are 
also learning the art of perfect breathing and these measures, together 
with fresh air, sunshine, etc., will finally prevent this dread disease 
altogether. 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



breathe correctly and yet perfect breathing is 
something that can be mastered by every one and 
in a comparatively short time. Parents must see 
to it that their children learn to use their dia- 
phragm in breathing, use every lung cell at every 
breath and thereby develop a full chest, soldierly 
bearing, etc. Breathing is a fine art, but it is an 
art that can be acquired in a short time by every 
one. Take your watch and practice breathing 
slowly and fully ten times per minute. Learn to 
use your diaphragm. It is one of the greatest 
health habits you can form. Consumption can- 
not be prevented until people learn how to 
breathe. 



HI. Eat Lightly. After perfect breathing, 
the next most important health habit you can 
form is that of EATING LIGHTLY. The 
object of eating is to supply material to rebuild 
tissue that has been torn down. Whatever we 
eat more than the amount necessary to rebuild 
tissue that has been torn down is WASTE and 
taxes the whole system to throw it off. Always 
get up from the table feeling that you did not 
eat quite enough. The selection of foods suitable 

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General Rules for the Prevention of Disease. 



to one's special condition is a matter of vast im- 
portance, but it can be done only after a careful 
study of one's condition. EATING LIGHTLY, 
however, applies to every one. Rest and be per- 
fectly quiet for a little time after each meal. 



IV. Learn How to Use Water. The body is 
about eighty per cent, water. Your bowels and 
your system generally demand at least four 
glasses of water each day. Study your condi- 
tion and learn how to use the "Mixed Bath" as it 
applies to yourself. The "Mixed Bath" is the 
application of hot water to one part of your body 
and cold to another part at the same time. It 
influences the nerve and blood currents between 
the points and is of great benefit in both curing 
and preventing disease. 



V. Learn How to Exercise. Every one should 
exercise five minutes upon going to bed at night, 
and also upon rising in the morning. The idea 
should be to maintain the normal, not to develop 
the abnormal. In your work, whatever it is, 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



you use some parts of your body more than other 
parts. You should take a few simple exercises 
night and morning to overcome this tendency, 
and maintain harmony throughout all parts of 
your body. 



VI. Study Preventive Science. In matters of 
health as in everything else, "KNOWLEDGE 
IS RICHES/' Increased knowledge has already 
added four years to the average life in the past 
few years, and it is going to solve still further 
the great questions of health until long life is 
the rule and not the exception. You are in the 
business of living and you must study that busi- 
ness. It is too important a matter to trust wholly 
to some one else. You must know something 
about the body yourself. You must study your 
body at least as closely as you study your auto- 
mobile. You must know something about how 
to run the human machine : what to put into it, 
and what not to put into it. You must take up 
the question of "How to Keep Well" and study 
it. You cannot afford to follow the old method 
of stumbling along in the dark with weakened or 
diseased organs or parts until you are down and 

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General Rules for the Prevention of Disease, 



helpless, and then try to find a cure. Where one 
reached old age in the past by mere accident, 
one thousand will reach it in the future by learn- 
ing how to live, and by studying the great ques- 
tion of prevention. 



VII. Learn the Science of Right Thinking. Think 
health, success and long life, and do not allow 
yourself to think sickness or failure. If you are 
sick, think health, think you are going to be cured 
and you will be. "As a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he." Your thoughts affect your 
happiness, your health, your success, your life. 
In general terms you get what you think. Like 
produces like. Every one is seeking the same 
object, and that is the attainment of happiness. 
In order to obtain happiness, you must give hap- 
piness. To be happy yourself, you must make 
others happy, because finally YOU WILL 
REAP WHAT YOU SOW. 



VIII. Conserve Your Electric Power. What 
has been called "Vitality" is now found to be 
electricity as we have seen. This electricity is 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



being continually generated and continually used 
throughout life, and one of the essentials of 
health is that the amount used must not for any 
considerable period of time exceed the amount 
generated. 

Overwork, overeating, loss of sleep, taking 
liquors, drugs or any other foreign substances 
into the body which the body cannot use, abuse 
of any organ or part, dissipation, worry, etc., all 
use electricity more rapidly than it is generated, 
and in time they undermine the health and invite 
disease. Do not indulge in any form of dissipa- 
tion. Be regular in your habits. Do not spend 
more electric power than you create. 



IX. Smile and be Optimistic. This is one of 
the most important statements that can be made 
for the preservation of health. Worry, fear, 
anxiety, pessimism, moroseness, all draw on your 
electric power and lower it, while laughter, opti- 
mism, cheerfulness, etc., add to it. 

Do not allow your mind to dwell on the dark 
side of things. Be hopeful, be optimistic, do 
right, have faith in yourself and keep working 



General Rules for the Prevention of Disease. 



and it will help you, not only in matters of health, 
but also in other ways. 



X. Sleep at Least Eight Hours Out of the Twenty- 
four. It is remarkable how closely health and 
long life are linked with sound, eight hours of 
sleep. It is now known that sleep lost is not as 
readily made up as is commonly supposed. It 
takes the system weeks to fully recover from a 
few nights of lost or broken sleep. 

Regularity of habits and eight hours' sleep out 
of the twenty-four are of utmost importance in 
keeping well. 



XI. Take No Drugs Into Your Body. The 

greatest physicians now give the least medicines. 
The old theory that drugs could cure disease is 
now seen to be a great fallacy. What is disease ? 
We have seen that, generally speaking, it is a 
MECHANICAL DEFECT somewhere on the 
nerves running from the brain to the part dis- 
eased. Can a drug correct a mechanical defect? 
Can a drug trace out the electric wiring (nerves) 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

of the body, find the point where pressure exists 
and remove that pressure? Your answer is, 
"No!" And yet this is what must be done to 
cure. 

Whiskey may excite, or opium depress you 
temporarily, but neither has any power to put 
the mechanics of the body in order, and this must 
be done in order to cure. All drugs excite or 
depress the system, but none of them have any 
power to cure disease. The best physicians, real- 
izing this fact, are now turning to methods more 
scientific. 

Within the body there are thousands of glands, 
all of which manufacture a different fluid, and 
these glands can, and do manufacture everything 
the body requires out of simple food. Every drug 
as well as every antitoxin which the body requires 
it can make. These glands manufacture fluids 
from which the bones, nerves and all other tis- 
sues of your body are made. When any of them 
fail to work perfectly, the thing to do is, not to 
swallow a drug, but to examine the wires 
(nerves) connecting them with the brain. 

If your automobile is in perfect order, it will 
run smoothly. If it does not run smoothly, there 
is something wrong with it which a drug cannot 

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General Rules for the Prevention of Disease. 



fix. This philosophy applies to the body in health 
and in disease. 

Many people have lost their life by taking a 
headache powder. 



XII. Do not Trust Your Health to Your Feelings. 

You cannot tell the condition your health is in by 
the way you feel. This fact is now established 
beyond dispute, not only by science as we have 
shown, but also by the facts of every-day experi- 
ence. Only recently a great man in New York 
City dropped dead while he and a number of 
friends were enjoying themselves at a public 
entertainment. Again, a lady and her husband 
were enjoying an automobile ride. She spoke 
to him, he did not answer. He had died instantly 
while driving the car, his hands still on 
the guiding wheel. I mention these cases only 
by way of illustration. Similar cases are occur- 
ring all the time. People who are seemingly per- 
fectly healthy are stricken down with appendi- 
citis, pneumonia, apoplexy, heart failure, etc. In 
all of these cases, that which SEEMS to be true 
is untrue. That which appears to be a sudden 
beginning is in fact a climax, an ENDING — the 

7° 



Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

culmination of imperfect conditions that have 
been coming on for months or years in the motor 
nerves — the nerves which give no warning how- 
ever imperfect their condition may be. 

Your sensor nerves may all be in perfect order 
and you may feel that your health is perfect, and 
yet there may be at the same time, a PRESSURE 
on one or more of your motor nerves, which is 
gradually reducing the quantity of electric power 
flowing to some vital organ, and which sooner or 
later will bring you down suddenly to a spell of 
sickness, or destroy your life. 

To prevent disease, all the electric wires of 
your body, both motor and sensor, must be kept 
in perfect condition, so that the electric currents 
may flow through them in normal quantity. 
Your feelings can be relied upon to announce 
defects occurring in your sensor nerves, but they 
cannot be relied upon to announce defects occur- 
ring in your motor nerves. Here your feelings 
must be supplemented by PREVENTIVE 
SCIENCE, by the new method of tracing out 
and testing from time to time the true condition 
of these motor nerves — these nerves which do 
not feel. 

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General Rules for the Prevention of Disease. 



If these simple rules, as well as all others here- 
with given are followed, individual diseases will 
become less and less numerous each year and 
at least twenty years will be added to the average 
life. 



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Chapter VIII. 

General Remarks. 

Civilized man has already won the victory over 
epidemic diseases. These he now prevents. The 
fip-ht now is with INDIVIDUAL diseases, and 
these he is going to prevent. Diseases of all 
kinds are to be conquered and driven from the 
earth. 



The time is coming when there will be no 
more sickness. Science and higher civilization 
are going to triumph over all the forces of dis- 
ease. 



The first essential in this great fight is to 
change the custom of doctoring. All doctors 
must master the new method of treatment, and 
take up the work of keeping their clientele well. 
The old custom of cure is always on the defen- 
sive. Its object is always to wait until disease 
makes an attack. The new custom of prevention 
is aggressive. Instead of waiting to be overcome 
by disease it marches forward and attacks it. 

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General Remarks. 

The secret in this new method of prevention 
lies in building up and developing your "Weakest 
Organ" before it breaks down. In this w r ay, a 
stitch in time saves, not nine, but ninety-nine. To 
neglect your "Weakest Organ" now, means that 
you must take time to be sick later. 



Your body as well as your automobile needs to 
be carefully gone over from time to time and 
kept in perfect MECHANICAL ORDER. This 
work in dealing with the human body requires 
the highest degree of MANIPULATIVE SUR- 
GERY — the kind of surgery that finds and cor- 
rects the slightest mechanical defect, without the 
letting of blood and without pain. 



Your mind may be strong and your thoughts 
ideal, but if there is pressure on the nerve threads 
which run from your brain to your bowels, you 
will be CONSTIPATED. To remove the pres- 
sure from these nerve threads means both cure 
and prevention. 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



The savage tribes of Africa still suffer from the 
ravages of smallpox and other epidemic diseases. 
Prevention is a work which can be understood 
and applied only by civilized people — people who 
can reason from cause to effect, and who can 
see that a "Weak Part" if neglected, means a 
breakdown later. 



The average length of life has already been 
increased more than four years since epidemic 
diseases have been prevented, and with the pre- 
vention of INDIVIDUAL diseases at least 
twenty years more will be added to the average 
length of life. 



Addendum. 

The Diseases of Your Father and Mother 
Point to Your Weakest Part. 

The wonderful results which have already 
been accomplished by this new method of curing 
and preventing disease have caused a vast num- 
ber of people to seek additional information with 
reference to it — especially as it applies to their 
own condition. 

There are two phases of this subject which 
every one should study and understand. 

First, The known " weak parts " in one's self. 

Second, The known " weak parts " in one's 
parents— as these are almost sure to be weak 
in the offspring. 

No one is equally strong in every organ and 
part. Every one has some weak point, some 
weak organ or part, whether he realizes it or 
not. 

We are the offspring of our parents part for 

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Your nerves must be in perfect condition — free from 
pressure — or you cannot remain well. 

part. That is, each part in the parent begets a 
corresponding part in the child. The lungs, for 
instance, of the child are woven from atoms of 
lung tissue taken from each of the parents. The 
heart of the child is woven from the heart mate- 
rial of the parents, and so it is with every organ 
and part of the body. 

We do not inherit the diseases of our 
parents directly, but as each and all of 
our organs are woven from material taken 
from the corresponding organs of their bodies, it 
follows that there is a strong tendency for us to 
be strong where they are strong and weak where 
they are weak. If their lungs were weak, if they 
died from some form of lung disease it behooves 
us to take steps to strenghten and develop our 
lungs. Likewise, if they died of a disease affect- 
ing the kidneys, the bowels, the liver, stomach 
or heart, the corresponding organ or organs in 
us should receive special care and attention. 
Though they may show no signs of being dis- 
eased they are likely to be weak and should be 
strengthened to forestall and prevent a break- 
down. 

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Addendum. 



In a general way, the diseases of our parents 
indicate to us our own "weakest parts" or organs. 
By knowing what our weakest organ is, and tak- 
ing steps to strengthen it, we can, if we begin in 
time make it strong. But this work must be be- 
gun in time — long before there is any indication 
of disease. 

In order, therefore, that all may study their 
own condition in the light of this new science 
more intelligently, an Educational Chart has 
been prepared which represents TO THE EYE 
the location of the various organs of the body, 
the electric wires (nerves) which control them, 
and thus the causes of disease and what must be 
done in order to cure and prevent them. 

Pictures make quick and lasting impressions 
on the mind. 

The chart may be said to be the "Compass" of 
disease, pointing out to both patient and doctor, 
the true direction of both cure and prevention. 

The old tendency of being unmindful of dis- 
ease until it makes an attack and drags one 
down, and then blindly trusting everything to 

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pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



a doctor is beginning now to pass away. Intel- 
ligent people are beginning now to seek inform 
mation in matters of treatment, to ask questions, 
to call for reasons. This is as it should be. It 
means that the present disastrous system of 
drugging and cutting must pass away and give 
place to methods which are scientific and which 
prevent as well as cure disease. 

Laymen will not master the details of the 
healing art. This is not to be expected. But 
they will master the generalities of it. They 
will master its main principles so that they will 
refuse to take a long line of poisonous drugs 
into their stomachs for a pain which they know 
is caused by some MECHANICAL PRESSURE 
on a nerve. They will learn the cardinal points of 
the "Compass" with reference to disease and 
they will refuse to go south when they know 
they should go north. 

No one can so fully appreciate the great value 
of knowing these first principles, as he who has 
tried one remedy after another for years in a 
vain effort to find relief from nervousness, rheu- 

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Addendum. 



matism, constipation, sick headache, indigestion, 
asthma or other ill, and then finds that a cure has 
all the time lain right at his very door had he only 
been able to recognize it. 

We cannot know too much about ourselves, nor 
the first causes of disease, for here as elsewhere, 
"Knowledge is power/' 

Sickness is always expensive, but knowledge 
which enables one to prevent it costs but a trifle. 

Every one whether sick or well by studying 
The Educational Chart for the Prevention of 
Disease, with reference to his weak points, may 
learn what is necessary to be done in his own case 
in order to prevent and ward off disease. 

Every intelligent person should learn the main 
points of this new science — of GETTING WELL 
and KEEPING WELL. Health and life, in 
the light of modern civilization and modern intel- 
ligence, are matters too important to leave wholly 
to chance or to a doctor. Each one must learn the 
essentials for himself. 

This fight against disease from the preventive 

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pressure — or you cannot remain well. 



standpoint is now under way all over the coun- 
try. Discoveries made in the laboratories of 
scientists have already been embodied in a special 
course at Yale, Cornell and Columbia, while uni- 
versities in most all the other states are rapidly 
preparing to adopt similar courses. 

On May 12th, 1909, one hundred thousand 
pupils of the Boston Public School, for the first 
time, observed "Health Day" — a day dedicated 
by special services to the great work of preven- 
tion. 

The work has also been taken up by the Clergy 
and is spreading through the various churches. 
The movement is becoming national. Starting 
with our greatest scientists, taken up and 
advanced by university presidents, ministers and 
educators, the object now is to extend its blessings 
to every home in the land. 

Prevention is now the word of the hour every- 
where — among the intelligent classes. Scientists 
and intelligent people everywhere now see that 
the only proper way to fight disease is to forestall 

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it — to develop the "weakest organ'' before it 
breaks down. 

Those who have been seeking additional infor- 
mation on this great subject will find the Educa- 
tional Chart, given in miniature on the opposite 
page, of special value — it being to the study of 
this subject what a map is to the study of the 
geography of a new country. It is also especially 
helpful to school children in their study of physi- 
ology, and to everyone interested in any way in 
the subject of KEEPING WELL. 



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Educational Chart for the Prevention off Disease 




The above chart in natural colors, with book of explanation, is now being sold 
in homes, schools and colleges everywhere. It illustrates to the eye, the new 
science of cure and prevention. Published and for sale by THE AMERICAN 
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE, 500 Fifth Avenue, New 
York City. Circular fully explaining chart and book mailed free upon request. 



